STAI CDT PhD student Aditi Ramaswamy shared their work at the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2025), presenting a poster on the paper ‘Quantitative Measures of Task-Oriented Creativity in Popular Image Generators’.
ICCC 2025 took place in Campinas, Brazil and is the only scientific conference that focuses on computational creativity alone. Aditi and their co-authors’ paper feeds into the conversation about whether generative AI models can exhibit creative behaviours and focuses on image generation.
With generative AI spreading rapidly across the internet, Aditi’s research relates to the need for open-source tools that can help people detect when content has been produced by AI. Importantly, these tools must be explainable and easy for everyday users to understand. Aditi believes that to be able to detect AI-generated content more effectively, we need to better understand how models think, respond and create.
Aditi explains the connection between detection and their paper here:
“One aspect of GenAI I find particularly interesting, and also conducive to improving detection efforts, is creativity. This paper represents our ongoing effort to mathematically represent the human concept of creativity in response to a given task, or “task-oriented creativity”, as it manifests in popular image generation models. How do they react when given prompts? How do they interpret tasks, what unexpected elements do they add to their responses, and ultimately, do they behave in ways that are surprising to human viewers?”.
Aditi received a very positive response to this paper. They said, “Quite a few of the academics present, who came from a variety of different artistic and STEM fields, found my foray into the behaviour of generative AI models interesting for their own work”.
Presenting at an international conference for the first time marked a milestone in Aditi’s PhD journey. Looking back on the experience, they shared, “I found it really exciting and fulfilling to connect with so many others studying similar topics! As a newly third-year PhD candidate, I’m excited to continue this journey and hopefully be able to present new work at other conferences in the future.”
Congratulations to Aditi for this fantastic achievement and for representing STAI CDT on the international stage.
You can read the paper here: Ramaswamy, A., Chockler, H., & Navaratnarajah, M. (2025). Quantitative Measures of Task-Oriented Creativity in Popular Image Generators. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2025).